New Large Silk Piece

Zoe had a delivery from Glasgow earlier this week.  It's a large-format print version of her lithograph, which will be a part of her upcoming group exhibition in May.

Zoe and "8AM San Francisco / 4PM Glasgow" (2013)

Zoe's Inflatables!!!

Zoe completed her first inflatable sculpture, "Honey I Love You, But It'll Never Work Out."  

We took some shots of its first inflation... 

The nylon sculpture is over three feet tall.  The figures are the same characters as featured on Zoe's book, "Mostly Relationships."    

(Link to other books in series.)

Proper installation views will be available soon.  

'Honey I Love You, But It'll Never Work Out' by Zoe Phillips (2013)

[preview 2] 'Honey I Love You, But It'll Never Work Out' by Zoe Phillips (2013)

Original Drawing by Zoe Phillips

covers of "Crimes" & "Mostly Relationships"

Works in Progress

Blake is working on a few new projects, (both independently and as an assistant to Zoe - more on her project(s) later)


He's been slowly adding new broadcasts and mixsets (with the elusive Joethelion) to his mixcloud, and there will be more to come soon... including soundtracks of original material for installations.

The Red Room in a Blue Hotel by Joethelion on Mixcloud

Blake also has been working on a new LARGE piece, which will be separated by at least three (3!!!) different panels.  It isn't quite finished yet, but here's a low resolution sample of the work as it exists now.  He is also in the middle of creating an artist book, collecting the entire series of 'exploding blob people' into one volume.

Note: Blake merged the pieces together so it would also fit nicely onto the blog...

'Exploding Head / pHEAD 01' (draft 1) by Blake Peterson [(c) 2013]

NEWS!

February is shaping up to be a nice, productive month!

We just had an exhibition in San Francisco confirmed (more information on that next week).

And - 

A lithograph from Blake's "Truck Driver" series - 'Scene 01: "Fine... I'll Do It"' has been selected for the 23rd Parkside National Small Print Exhibition.  

The exhibition opens on April 1st, and continues through July 19th at the University of Wisconsin Parkside Fine Arts Gallery.  

(low rez preview) 'Scene 1: "Fine... I'll Do It"' by Blake Peterson (2011)

Finished the print, see it layer by layer

Today I finished my last layer of ink.  Decided to print in blue grey today instead of black.

Full Edition, before being torn down & signed

snapshot of print by Zoe Phillips (2013)

Detail

Photo's In Studio

Zoe was in the print studio today, adding another layer to her lithograph.  On Thursday, we only printed two of the four colors.

We decided to take some (low-rez) snapshots of the prints as they're being worked on.  

The full edition of the Work in Progress by Zoe Phillips (2013)

Close-Up Snapshot of a print by Zoe Phillips

Printing new lithographs today!

Zoe and Blake are hard at work in the studio!  It's a new piece by Zoe, as a part of her skype series.  Blake is helping with the printing.

the prints with just Yellow & Magenta

Zoe rolling ink onto the plate

New Zoe x Blake collab print

ZOE LOVES CHEETOS!!!

"ZOE LOVES CHEETOS" by Zoe Phillips, with Blake Peterson (2012)

It will be available as a high-quality digital print (on archival, museum-quality paper or canvas) on the Saatchi site.

...and when to stay in, get things done.

Over the past few days, I have been re-taking photographs of my older prints, drawings and various other pieces.  I thought that the lighting wasn't adequate enough on the majority of my older work, you lost a lot of the vibrance in the 'translation' to computer screen.

This has also led to the 're-opening' of our Etsy Site and the establishment of my (Blake's) Saatchi Online Portfolio.  

We still have a small number of silk scarves available - but in LIMITED QUANTITIES so act fast!  Additionally, we'll also be sneaking some scarves onto our Etsy Shop which have never been sold online.

On my Saatchi page, a lot of my original works are also available as high quality prints on Museum Quality 100% Cotton Fine Art Paper, or as Resin Coated Paper Base Photographs, and some are even available on UV Protected Canvas in various sizes (see this link for an example.)  They even provide diagrams to show how relatively big a work is, with a figure and household furniture.

"New Horizons" by Blake Peterson (2009)
Lithograph, Edition of 10
Pulled from the Archives, and Now Available at the Saatchi Site

Zoe's new prints

letterpressed

letterpressed by zoe

letterpressed and watercolored by zoe

letter pressed

letterpressed and watercolored by zoe

litho by zoe

Here are some new prints from two different series. More to come.

Sheepish

the 'blotch face' prints keep coming... 


a small selection (somewhere between six and ten) of the series will be shown as a part of the Glasgow School of Art MFA Graduation Show in a few months at the Glue Factory (more info soon)

Sheepish [Iowa City] by Blake Peterson (2012)

More Work...

Here's an updated version of 'that second image' that I posted earlier.  I changed some of the coloring, adjusted the scale, and added more stuff to the background... amongst other things.

'Zoe (San Francisco)' by Blake Peterson (2012) 

New Image(s) and...

I've been working on a few more images for my current series of prints... 


...I just finished the drawing for the first one (haven't had a chance to print yet), and the second image is still a work in progress - so colors, scale, some details and amongst other stuff will still get tweaked around a bit (but I thought I'd still share it)... 


Additionally - the third image is another alternate version of the 'Alt Space' images we posted a little bit ago...  It was made by collaging segments of the 'space scarf' over each other, then placing some of Zoe's drawings on top.


ALSO - if you have a chance, it would be much appreciated if you VOTE for Blake.  All you have to do, is follow the link and click "VOTE"

'Falling in Space' (2012); (drawing prepped to be a litho) - Blake Peterson

'Untitled' - (2012) work in progress by Blake Peterson

Alt Space (V4) 2012 - by Blake Peterson w/ Zoe Phillips

Jet Lag

A few more new things...


Blake is back in Glasgow, working on a few new projects (including getting over horrible jet lag) & Zoe is finishing up her house piece* and starting up a few new courses


*we have a few preview photo's of this but we didn't want to overload this one post with too many pictures...


Back on Friday, Blake installed his series of new prints (including two new images he drew in San Francisco) at Red Bistro.


Here are some photo's of them at the location... 

Happy New Year!!!

Hi everyone - 


So some updates ... 


I'm visiting San Francisco to check out the area with Zoe, get to know the city, and hopefully land some potential work for when I move out here after I'm done with the MFA program in Glasgow.  


In the meantime, I'm working on my dissertation (outline's due on Wednesday) and it looks like I *will* be showing some of my new work in Des Moines before I go back to Glasgow (fingers crossed)


Photo's from San Francisco coming soon... but here's a bit of a preview of what will be shown in Iowa...  It will be a set of lithographs and giclee prints, each is about two feet wide by three feet tall

Zoe: Iowa City by Blake Peterson (2011)

Jen + Zoe (Iowa City) - by Blake Peterson (2011)

New Prints...

I just finished a series of new (large) litho prints in Glasgow...


The image is just over two feet wide and three feet tall.  


There are two different versions of it: for one print, I 'fixed' some glitter by reprinting the blue layer (after finishing all the other colors) with just transparent base.  Immediately after printing that layer, I coated the paper with glitter - and it only stuck where the trans-base was.


Unfortunately - the lighting in the studio wasn't so hot (there's basically only those ceiling lights found in offices) and it was a particularly cloudy day.  They look incredible and vibrant in person, but on the wall, a spotlight is pretty much necessary.  Which is why I also included the original drawing at the bottom.


But anyways - I don't have a title yet, and I'm pretty sure that this image will be a part of the series relating to the "Saint Lucy" image

'And I Hope It Never Stops' [Glitter Version] (2011) by Blake Peterson

Detail of Litho Print with glitter by Blake Peterson (2011)

'And I Hope It Never Stops' (without glitter, in alt orientation) litho by Blake Peterson (2011)

Detail of Litho Print without glitter by Blake Peterson (2011)

'And I Hope It Never Stops' - Original Sketch (used as template) by Blake Peterson

What We've Been Up To...

Sorry for the long delay in updates onto the blog...


Zoe has been diligently working on her dollhouse project in San Francisco - we'll have photo's of it up soon.


The "Business Birds" print was made available on our Etsy site, and it sold QUICKLY (only being available for one day.)  It was in an edition of 10, so we'll have another available in the near future.  


Blake was a part of a small show at the GSA called "No White After Labour Day."  It consisted of work made over the summer by fellow Second Year MFA's at the Glasgow School of Art.


For the show, Blake included two portions from his "Truck Driver Series" - "Scene 10: Birdman of Athens, OH" and "Scene 11: Another One"


Also - Blake has been working on his "Saint Lucy" image some more.  He finally got the main image printed, and has added to some of the lines.  Next up is some flocking, and adding of some reflective surfaces.




At the bottom of this post are two more works-in-progress.  Carrying on from the original "Lost Sheep in Glasgow" project, Blake will be printing out one of the photographs Zoe took of him, but the areas of the 'sheep fluff' will be screen printed & flocked (the fluff area was made a bit grey to convey where the added texture is going to be).

"Scene 10: Birdman of Athens, OH" & "Scene 11: Another One" (2011) by Blake Peterson

Snapshot of portion of "No White After Labour Day" show, works by various artists

"Saint Lucy" - work in progress at Blake's studio in Glasgow

"Lost Sheep in Glasgow (Part Two)" - work in Progress (cotton area will be flocked)

"Lost Sheep in Glasgow (Part Two - Alternate Version)" work in progress

New Projects

Apologies for the lack of updates on the blog... Blake and Zoe have been quite busy over the past few weeks, just for a quick rundown:


• Blake is still re-editing, doing color alterations, and soundtracking the stop-motion animation that we posted a preview image from earlier

• Zoe is starting on a new project in San Francisco, using Doll Houses and some 'unique' materials (more on that later)


• Blake finally set up a SoundCloud Account, to host his mixes... he just posted something from a few days ago, click here

• Blake is finally putting the finishing touches on a collaborative image that he was working on with Zoe earlier (preview below), called "Business Birds."  He just needs to 'amp up' the colors a bit more - basically, he's going to make the bird colors 'more like candy' and a bit fluorescent - instead of the more muted ones seen below: 


• Blake is also working on a project relating to memory, beginning specifically with his experience with a statue of Saint Lucy, a preview image of the first part of the image is below the "Business Birds".  It will be print that combines digital & serigraph techniques with added sculptural portions. 

"Business Birds" (2011) drawn by Zoe Phillips, colored / revised by Blake Peterson

"Saint Lucy" [first draft] (2011) by Blake Peterson

Moving Sale on Etsy Site!!!

As Blake's vacation in the States is ending soon, and Zoe will be moving to San Francisco ... 


We'll be having a bit of a sale on our ETSY SITE  


Right now, you can purchase our scarves at a discounted rate


and we'll be adding stuff for limited sale (until Zoe leaves - within the next two weeks) of some other pieces...

Computer Store in Fairfield, IA (2011) ; photo by Blake Peterson

Blake's (on going) Comic Book Project

Blake recently completed the "first draft" of his ongoing comic/ zine series.


This first printing is titled "The Women that Shaped My Life" and is a 10 page collection of short, three panel stories concerning - the women that guided him as he grew up...


This project will develop further, containing more issues & stories from his past.  


Here are some samples, editions will become available for sale in the near future

Cover Art (printed on transparent film), 2011 by Blake Peterson

(Detail) Transparency on Cover, Blake Peterson (2011)

(Detail) Page 02 of Comic, Blake Peterson (2011)

(Detail) Page 04, Blake Peterson 2011

(Detail) Back, Blake Peterson 2011

Dedication / Image of Niles Crane, Blake Peterson 2011